Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden will be featured in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition. Here's why her success needs to be viewed in context of a long history of black Muslim women's fashions.

Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault on the campaign trail last September before the election that saw his party form a majority government.
April 7, 2019

Hijab is not simply about religion – women wear it for a variety of reasons.

The freedom to choose one’s clothes is key to sartorial experimentation. In the late 1920s, the Catholic Register wrote that these swimsuits were indecent.
State Library of Queensland
December 12, 2018

With its "Pro hijab" Nike has mainstreamed what is generally considered as an oppressive and marginalised garment.

Warda Naili poses for a photograph on a city bus in Montreal. Last week, Bill 62 was passed in Quebec, outlawing the wearing of a niqab on public transit.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
October 23, 2017